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Discomfit   Listen
adjective
Discomfit  adj.  Discomfited; overthrown. (Obs.)





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"Discomfit" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1888 that he had written off three hundred thousand pounds of bad debts. Consider what a man's genuine business must be like when he can jauntily allude to three hundred thousands as a bagatelle by the way. That same man has means of obtaining "information" sufficient to discomfit any poor gambler who steps into the Ring and expects to beat the bookmakers by downright above-board dealing. As soon as he begins to lay heavily against a horse the animal is regarded as doomed to lose ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman


Words linked to "Discomfit" :   untune, arouse, pain, anguish, unnerve, enervate, provoke, bewilder, bemuse, evoke, enkindle, kindle, disconcert, discompose, afflict, hurt, fire, faze, raise, dissolve, discomfiture, elicit, upset, throw, abash, embarrass, discombobulate, unsettle


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